Kevin Johnson and Tom Eston gave the third and final “Social Zombies” talk at Notacon 8 this weekend. This talk focused on how social networks are using geolocation and the abuse of location based services.

“Social networks have jumped onto the geolocation bandwagon with location-based tweets, status updates, check-ins, mayorships, and more. This doesn’t take into account EXIF, QR codes, and advancements in HTML 5 geo implementations, which are being built into these location-based services. This is often implemented and enabled without the user even knowing it. In fact, geolocation is one of the hottest technologies being used in everything from web browsers to mobile devices. As social networks throw our location coordinates around like candy, its only natural that bad things will happen and abuse will become more popular. This presentation will cover how social networks and other websites are currently using location-based services, what they plan on doing with it, and a discussion on the current privacy and security issues. We will also discuss the latest geolocation hacking techniques and will release custom code that can abuse all of the features being discussed.”

This is the 23rd episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded February 25th, 2011. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

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This is the 18th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded September 3, 2010. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright and is our 1 year anniversary episode! Thanks to everyone that has supported the podcast over the last year…we really appreciate it! Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

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Just a quick post that I have updated the Facebook Privacy & Security Guide to include information on configuring the privacy settings for Facebook Places. You can find this on the first page under “Sharing on Facebook”. Stay tuned for more information on Facebook Places in the next day or so!

This is the 17th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded August 13th, 2010. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

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This is the 12th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded March 28, 2010. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

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This is the 11th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded March 15, 2010. Sorry for the delay on releasing this! We should be back on our biweekly schedule soon. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

Tom and Scott discuss some of the privacy and security issues with Geolocation services.

Geostalking shows the privacy issues with location based social networks. You might be setting yourself up for a prank call.

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This is the 10th episode of the Social Media Security Podcast recorded February 8, 2010. This episode was hosted by Tom Eston and Scott Wright. Below are the show notes, links to articles and news mentioned in the podcast:

Tom talks about some of the security and privacy issues regarding sites like Blippy and FourSquare. CyberStalking anyone?

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